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“stephen broomer”

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  • Secret Museums

    The Films of Arthur Lipsett

    by Stephen Broomer ...
    Arthur Lipsett’s first film was nominated for an Academy Award in 1962, marking the arrival of an influential new voice. The film’s dark humour and dancing rhythms had captured the spirit of his times. When Lipsett died by suicide in 1986, the humour and joy of his work was eclipsed by that sardonic darkness. It all came to feel like an omen.Secret Museums is a study in the life and work of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Moments of Perception

    Experimental Film in Canada

    by Michael Zryd, Stephen Broomer ...
    Film is the art form of our times. It has formed the background of our lives, informed visual arts practices, and formed our culture’s stories, its memory.Moments of Perception is a landmark book. The first history of twentieth and early-twenty-first-century Canadian experimental filmmaking, it maps avant-garde film across the country from the 1950s to the present day, including its contradictions ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Edgar G. Ulmer

    Detour on Poverty Row

    by Stephen Broomer, Kevin Heffernan, David Hogan, Reynold Humphries, Chris Justice, Scott Loren, Hugh S. Manon, Alison Peirse, Claudia Pummer, Marlisa Santos, Robert Singer, Tony Tracy, Dion Tubrett, Yannis Tzioumakis, Tony J. Williams, Graeme Harper, Steffen Hantke, Phillip Sipiora ...
    Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row illuminates the work of this under-appreciated film auteur through 21 new essays penned by a range of scholars from around the globe. Ulmer, an immigrant to Hollywood who fell from grace in Tinseltown after only one studio film, became one of the reigning directors of Poverty Row B-movies.Structured in four sections, Part I examines various contexts important ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Hamilton Babylon

    A History of the McMaster Film Board

    by Stephen Broomer ...
    Founded in 1966 at McMaster University by avant-garde filmmaker John Hofsess and future frat-comedy innovator Ivan Reitman, the McMaster Film Board was a milestone in the development of Canada’s commercial and experimental film communities. McMaster’s student film society quickly became the site of art filmmaking and an incubator for some of the country’s most famous commercial talent – as the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

    by Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby ...
    How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • A Different Kind of Ethnography

    Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies

    Edited by Dara Culhane, Denielle Elliott ...
    Building on the sensory ethnographic trend in contemporary sociocultural anthropology, this collection introduces the idea of a different kind of ethnography: an imaginative and creative approach to anthropological inquiry that is collaborative, open-ended, embodied, affective, and experimental. The authors treat ethnography as a methodology that includes the whole process of ethnography, from ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Film Fourth Edition

    A Critical Introduction

    by Tom Wallis, Maria Prammaggiore ...
    Updated and expanded for a new edition, this is the perfect starter text for students of film studies. Packed full of visual examples from all periods of film history up to the present, Film:A Critical Introduction illustrates film concepts in context and in depth, addressing techniques and terminology used in film production and criticism, and emphasising thinking and writing critically and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Expo 67

    Not Just a Souvenir

    Edited by Johanne Sloan, Rhona Richman Kenneally ...
    Expo 67, the world's fair held in Montreal during the summer of 1967, brought architecture, art, design, and technology together into a glittering modern package. Heralding the ideal city of the future to its visitors, the Expo site was perceived by critics as a laboratory for urban and architectural design as well as for cultural exchange, intended to enhance global understanding and ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Depicting Canada’s Children

    Edited by Loren Lerner ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Photograph as Contemporary Art

    by Charlotte Cotton ...
    Series series World of Art
    A new edition of the definitive title in the field of contemporary art photography by one of the world’s leading experts on the subject, Charlotte Cotton.In the twenty-first century, photography has come of age as a contemporary art form. Almost two centuries after photographic technology was first invented, the art world has fully embraced it as a legitimate medium, equal in status to painting ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Special Effects

    Still in Search of Wonder

    by Michele Pierson ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Designed to trick the eye and stimulate the imagination, special effects have changed the way we look at films and the worlds created in them. Computer-generated imagery (CGI), as seen in Hollywood blockbusters like Star Wars, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men in Black, and The Matrix, is just the latest advance in the evolution of special effects. Even as special effects have ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Shivers Down Your Spine

    Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View

    by Alison Griffiths ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum, humans have gained a deeper understanding of the natural world through highly illusionistic representations that engender new modes of seeing, listening, and thinking. What unites and defines many of these wondrous spaces ... Read more

    $32.99 USD